The nurse is monitoring clients in the dining room of a rehabilitation unit. An adult stroke client begins to cough after eating a piece of meat. What intervention would the nurse use to help this client?
1) Encourage the client to continue to cough to clear the airway.
2) Perform the Heimlich maneuver with the client in a sitting position.
3) Wait until the client becomes unconscious to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
4) Attempt a finger sweep to help remove the piece of meat.